Education, health care, and social assistance account for the largest share of jobs in town by a wide margin, followed by hospitality, retail, and professional services. Mining shapes the wider county economy: the Mining District towns sit minutes away, and copper wages set the top of the local pay scale.
Share of employed civilians 16 and over. Source: Census ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table C24050.
Western New Mexico University anchors the local labor pipeline, and JTIP's small-community tiers apply to Grant County hires: see the JTIP guide.